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Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 15. 1947 (Saturday)
A long-range program to im
prove fishing at Lake of the
Woods will be undertaken this
year, according to E. P. Ivory,
president of Home Owners asso
ciation. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The sun
shone bright and balmy Thuri.
and Fri. causing the Older Girls
t dream of picnics and bring
on a rain.
20 YI&18 AGO
March 15. 1937 (Monday)
Ernie's Casino on the Pacifc
highway north of Gold Hill will
be reopened Wednesday by Mr.
and Mrs. H. G. Plummer, new
owners and managers.
Chief of Police Clatous Mc
Credie and Capt. Lee Brown of
the state police announce ac
ceptance of City Patrolman
James Maulding for position
with state police.
30 YEARS AGO
March IS. ft27 (Tuesday)
U.S. treasurer issues check for
Jackson county totaling $1,151,
962. 7-, in payment for a O&C
land grant tax refund.
Faster and earlier mail serv
ice from Portland has been as
sured due to a change in air
plane schedules, according to
Postmaster W. J. Warner.
40 YEARS AGO
March IS. 1917 (Thursday)
After three days of battle, a
revolution is successfully effect
ed in Petrograd, Russia.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten corrsct is superior; sev
en cr eight is excsUent; tiva a
six is good.
1. In 1837 the first successful
screw in steam navigation was
introduced by F. P. Smith and
Captain E n?
2. Is the actual weight of
ship denoted by its "gross ton
nage" or its "displacement ton
nage?"
3. "Bible: Does Mark 6:1-6 re
fer to the "First" or "Second
Rejection" of Jesus at Nazareth?
4. Who served as Vice-Presi
dent in the first administration
of George Washington?
5. Is a stethoscope used most
by a machinist,' a musician,
physician, or a physicist?
6. What is a cadaver?
7. Lord Haw Haw was a char
acter in one of Dickens' novels
true or false?
8. "Dry ice" is a popular name
for what?
9. Does "calculate" mean to
plan, compute, think, or express?
10. "Over the hills and far
away" was the only tune that
"a piper's son" could play. Name
him.
Answers: 1. Ericson. 2. Dis
placement tonnage. 3. Second
-Rejection. 4. John Adams. 5.
TPhysician. 6. Corps. 7. Fait (h
was a German radio propagan
dist). 8. Solidified carbon dioxide
gas. 9. Compute. 10. Tom.
House Subcommittee OKs
Columbia Channel Survey
Washington (U.R) A resolu
tion calling for a survey to de
termine the cost of creating a
40-foot channel from Vancouver
to the mouth of the Columbia
ever won approval yesterday
from a House public works sub
committee. The resolution would author
ed6 the Army engineers to make
the survey at an estimated cost
of $100,008.
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MAIL TRIBUrTS
Growth of Cities
"Salem's pride is damaged," says the Salem Cap
ital Journal.
"Something which we have expected for several
years has apparently happened," says the Eugene
Register-Guard. c
The basis of these diverse comments is the fact
that the city recorders of the two cities have for
warded their estimates of their own cities' populations
to the state census board, and it is found that Eugene
now has a population exceeding that of Salem by
169 people.
Salem, after 100 years in the position, is no longer
the second-largest city in the state, or won't be if the
census board accepts the recorders' estimates with
out major revision.
t t m m
pOUNTING noses in these two cities is an "iffy"
proposition, however. .
Eugene is permitted to include in its total the
5,000 or so students at the University of Oregon.
Salem's total includes the inmates of the state hos
pital (about 3,500) and the state penitentiary (about
1,500) as well as the 1,000 students at Willamette
university. . .
The census figures, therefore, (to not reflect the
numbers of bona fide, permanent residents.
And what of the future?
The Capital Journal says "Salem has greater an
nexation possibilities," a statement with which the
R-G would disagree, for it says "Of course, with an
annexation or two, there would be no doubt" as to
which would be larger. It points out that some 32,
000 people live in the suburbs of Eugene, and that
if onlv two of the more populous areas joined the
! city, the population would
not counting the possibility of bpnngf leld, with some
13,000 residents, joining Eugene a possibility which
seems remote enough at this point.
yHE new count gives Eugene 46,482 and Salem
1 46,313.
Portland, of course, is still first, and will remain
so for the foreseeable future, because of its strategic
position at the confluence of the Columbia and the
Willamette, its port facilities, and the fact that it is
also a major terminus for
travel.
Fourth city in the state
estimated population of just under 22,000, up some
1,900 from last year at this time, partly the result of
the Kenwood-Grandview annexation.
It is doubtful that the new estimates will make
much change in the ranking of the 13 cities in the
state now having more than 10,000 people, except
possibly Albany and Astoria. The state Blue Book
lists them this way:
Fifth, Klamath Falls, 18,300; sixth, Corvallis,
17,900; seventh, Pendleton, 14,500; eighth, Spring
field, 13,250; ninth, Roseburg, 12,600; tenth, Astoria,
12,331; eleventh, Albany, 12,300; twelfth, Bend, 11,
900, and thirteenth, The Dalles, 10,600.
TT IS interesting to watch the comparative rates of
growth of the cities of Oregon over the past 26
years.
Medford has almost doubled, from 11,007 in 1930.
In 1940 it still had only 11,281 people. The big jump,
of course, came between then and 1950, when the
federal census gave us 17,305.
Eugene in 1930 had
it had climbed only to 20,838. Here, too, the big in
crease was sparked by World War 11, and by lioU
it had 35,879. But Eugene kept growing, and by last
year the total was 44,406.
Salem started m 1930
with 26,266. In 1940 this
30,908, in 1950 to 43,140, and in 1956 to 45,812..
ease
THE most spectacular
little town of 2,364, and which today is the bustling,
lumber-manufacturing eighth city of the state with
more than 13,000.
Roseburg, too, has grown spectacularly, from
4,362 to 12,600.
Most stable of the major cities in Oregon is prob
ably Astoria, which climbed only from 10,349 to
12,331 during the 26 years. At one of the censuses,
it dropped a few people, but later gained them back
again.
Bend and Klamath Falls each climbed in popula
tion less than some of the others, Bend going from
8,848 to 11,990, and Klamath from 16,093 to 18,300.
AS TO county population, only three are over the
100,000 mark Multnomah, Lane and Marion,
in that order.
Fourth and fifth are Clackamas (97,550) and
Washington (74,120). They do not have any of the
larger cities, but their population is accounted for
by the fact that they are "bedroom" counties sur
rounding Portland, where many metropolitan, work
ers have their homes in smaller communities and
rural developments.
Sixth county is Douglas, with 71,830, and it is
followed by Jackson, with 65,790 and Linn, with
20,120.
THE state as a whole has climbed from 783,399 in
x 1920 to 953,786 in 1930; 1,089,684 in 1940; 1,
521,341 in 1950 and 1,690,840 in 1956.
The rate of population increase in Oregon has
not been as rapid as it has been in either Washing
ton or California, a fact freely discussed by politicians
in both parties
But with population still coming west, it is in
evitable that more people will continue to come to
Oregon. E.A.
Friday. March 15. 1957
go over 60,000. This is
rail, highway and air
still is Medford, with an
18,901 people, and in 194U
with an edge on Eugene,
had climbed slightly to
growth has probably been
Mid-East Cuba, Hungary Take
Spotlight in
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on Ik international bal
ance sheet:
Danger of new fighting be
tween Egypt and Israel arose in
the Gaza area in Palestine.
United Nations forces took
over the area
from Israelis
who had held
it since their
Sft! - n invasion of
V " it October.
With the
'sgz-1-h'Zl agreement of
i the U.N., Presi-
. dent Gamal
Charles MeCann Abdel Nasser
of Egypt named a governor gen
eral to assume civil administra
tive control.
Israel objected angrily, and
threatened to take military ac
tion if Nasser moved troops into
Gaza.
Rebels Storm Palae
Cuban rebels stormed the
presidential palace in midtown
Havana in an attempt to over-
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
More on budget cutting:
Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son is working with budget bu
reau officials in an effort to trim
his department's record-breaking
budget of five billion, 300 mil
lion dollars for the coming fis
cal year.
THAT is quite a lot of money.
What is it spent for?
The answer to that question is
rather interesting. More than
half of the department of agri
culture's budget goes into such
programs as supporting farm
prices, the soil bank land better
ment plan, payments to farmers
for conserving soil and water
and subsidies to sugar and wool
producers.
THAT is to say:
TVTnrp than fwn ViilHnn An.
lars a year goes into programs
designed to keep prices of farm
products higher. On a per capita
basis, each billion dollars taken
out of the taxpayers' pockets and
spent by government costs you
as an individual about $6 so
this two billion dollar expendi
ture to bolster farm product
prices costs you as an individual
about S12. If you are the bread
winner for a family of four, it
costs you in the neighborhood of
$48.
TF THE spending of this huge
- sum of money made American
agriculture happy and prosper
ous and comfortable, I think no
one would complain.
But does it?
I wonder.
We have come recently
through a political campaign in
which the plight of the Ameri
can farmer was described by the
politicians as little less than
tragic. Can an agricultural pro
gram that costs more than two
billion dollars for price-propping
devices AW) STILL LEAVES
AMERICAN FARMERS DOWN
TRODDEN AND UNDER
PRIVILEGED be described as a
success?
I doubt it.
CAN the agriculture depart
ment's hlirlcrof ha mqtapi.
ally?
Secretary Benson and his
aides say the job is difficult be
cause the bulk of the depart
ment's expenditures come in the
field of supporting farm pricesd
an xarm incomes and so large
numbers of lawmakers, with an
eye on the farm vote, are de
manding BIGGER rather than
smaller federal spending for
agricultural supports.
Secretary Benson thinks some
budget trimming could undoubt
edly be done in the fields of
agricultural research and mar
keting because the politicians
are not so directly interested in
projects of that sort. But, Mr.
Benson contends, the best help
government can give to farmers
is io aevise ways, through re
search and education, to help
farmers to produce more effic
iently and more cheaply.
So he himself doesn't want to
cut fields which he regards as
genuinely promising.
rpHE secretary of agriculture
thinks the school lunch pro
gram is one place where some
cutting could be done. Its pro
posed cost in the next fiscal year
is 100 million dollars. What it
amounts to is giving government-owned
food surpluses to
schools so that free or at least
low-priced lunches can be served
to school children.
But here again he runs into
opposition from political sources.
LL of this helps to explain
"why budget cutting isn't a
simple thing. Over a period that
now is runnine into its third
decade, our people have been
taught to think of Uncle Sam as
a big-hearted old benefactor who
scatters largess among all his
people and delights in doing so.
At the same time, we have been
taught to think of this largess
as manna from heaven that costs
nobody anything.
We hate to give it up.
And
We fail to recognize that in
the long run it all comes out of
our pockets.
Week's News List
throw President Fulgencio Ba
tista. At least 36 persons, in
cluding an American tourist by
stander, were killed in a two
hour battle before palace guards
routed the invaders.
Hungarian Communist author
ities took extraordinary precau
tions to head off a threatened
new uprising in face of indica
tions that anti-Communists plan
ned an outbreak today. Warned
by the arrival of troops and
tanks in Budapest, underground
leaders distributed leaflets urg
ing "all freedom fighters to re
frain from any action on March
15.
Gaza
When Israel, at the demand of
the U.N., withdrew its troops
from the Gaza Strip area on the
Israel - Egypt border, Israeli
Prime Minister David Ben
Gurion said that he would not
tolerate ' its reoccupation by
Egyptian forces.
Troops of the U.N. Emergency
Force occupied the area.
Tips on Shopping
Given by Babson
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. I have i
already given hints as to buying
real estate. That is: (1) Determine I
in which direc
tion your city
is growing best
and with the
best houses
East, West,
North or South.
(2) Then drive
out the main
road in that di
rection. Buy
Eoger w. Babson when you come
to the first good land offered by
the acre not by the foot. I have
also told those who are deter
mined to bet at horse races to
bet on two or three of the horses
which have been coming in "sec
ond '! Now let me give some
hints to women shoppers.
I forecast that discount houses
will constantly become a greater
factor in merchandising. They
have lower overhead than the
big department stores and are
worthy of the attention of every
sharp shopper. Like all else in
this world, they have their ad
vantages and disadvantages.
They can usually give you lower
prices on all articles. On good
furniture, textiles, and other
merchandise which does not
need mechanical servicing I rec
ommend that they be patronized.
I, however, cannot now recom
mend them for electrical appli
ances, such as stoves, television
sets, and perhaps washing ma
chines, which need servicing.
Sales of "loss leaders" should
be carefully watched. These have
an economic use in merchandis
ing in order to get customers
into a store. A merchant can
well afford to advertise and sell
one article below cost, to get you
into the store in the hope that
you will also buy something else
upon which he will make a good
profit. A couple shopping with
patience who will study the ad
vertisements can (during the
year) secure most of their goods
from these "loss leaders" for
aDout one nan xneir regular re-1
tail prices.
Anniversary Sales
But here is perhaps my best
tip when one of your reliable
stores has an anniversary sale,
make a note of it in your diary.
If you don't need to buy anything
at that time, write down when it
will come next year. (It must
always come the same week each
year). Every month some store is
having an anniversary sale. Care
ful shoppers fill all their needs
at these sales. Instead of form
ing the habit of trading at only
their favorite store, they shop
around at these different Stores
awaiting their anniversary sales.
There also are "white sales,"
when you can get bargains. Most
of these occur in the summer; but
I am told that the real bargains
come at the very end of the win
ter.. There are special sales
where manufacturers are over
stocked or are about to change
styles or models. Watch for them.
Watch your newspaper adver
tisements for real opportunities.
Auction Sales
Auctions have existed for the
past 3,000 years. They regularly
took place in the great public
market places of Athens, Rome,
and Venice. Many jewelry stores
hold daily auctions in most large
cities today. Of course, all stock
exchanges work on the auction
system. Until recently, however,
I have hesitated to recommend
that my readers buy at store auc
tions.
Certain cities, however, are
now holding mammoth and reli
able auctions publicized by tele
vision. Then, wherever you are,
you have the privilege for one
week of buying a duplicate of
any article sold at the auction at
the same price at which it was
shown and sold at the auction.
One of the most famous of these
auctions is operated three times
daily, except Sundays, at Clear
water, Fla., under the name of
"Howard the Trader." While
good stores have but few regular
customers, this auction will have
from 5,000 to 10,000 people
daily. It is amazing. Either these
auctions can revolutionize re
tailine. or else they will flop.
Only the future can tell. I now
'don't even guess.
Nasser, who regards the U.N.
occupation as temporary, named
a governor general to organize
Egyptian control of civil affairs.
But Israeli leaders believed
Nasser might plan to move Egyp
tian troops into Gaza later. They
left no doubt that if he did, Israel
would attack.
Cuba
Fidel Castro, 30, a student
leader who had been living in
exile in Mexico, landed a small
force of rebels in Oriente Prov
ince, in the extreme eastern part
of Cuba last October to chal
lenge the rule of Batista. Since
then, the rebels have been hold
ing out in the mountains against
strong army units.
The rebels who stormed Ba
tista's palace in Havana Thurs
day were believed to be allied
with Castro. Cuban authorities
charged that both groups are
supported by former President
Carlos Prio Socarras, now in
Florida, whom Batista ousted in
1952.
Finally, I recommend to every
housewife either the Consumer
Reports from Mt. Vernon, N. Y.,
or the Consumers' Research Bul
letin of Washington, N. J. (non
profit monthlies). They make im
partial reports as to the compar
ative quality of all nationally ad
vertised products.
Hatfield Raps Holmes
For Break of 'Faith1
In Transfer of Office
Salem '(U.R) Secretary of
State Mark Hatfield accused
Gov. Robert D. Holmes of a
"direct break of faith" when
his newly appointed director of
motor vehicles "requested"
transfer of the gas tax collec
tions and refunds functions from
his office to the Department of
Motor Vehicles as of 5 p.m. to
day. Hatfield termed the request
for transfer at this time "untime
ly and uneconomical" but he
said he had no choice but to
comply with the request.
Bill Would Resolve Problem
The secretary of state said
that Senate bill 33 now before
the Legislature "would resolve
the whole problem with maxi
mum economy." He added:
"Because Senate bill 33 is
before the Legislature, it seems
untimely for the proposed action
to be taken so hastily although
the - director of motor vehicles
was within his legal right to
do so." The new director is
Frank Johnson, former Coos
Bay lumberman.
Hatfield added: "The sum
mary fashion in which the re
quest was made is a direct break
of faith on the part of the gov
ernor as recorded in his letter
Goyernor Warns
State Educators
Portland U.R) Delegate to
the Oregon Education Associa
tion meeting here last night were
told bluntly by Gov. Robert
Holmes that their job is to edu
cate the youth of the state and
they are in danger of losing rec
ognition in that respect.
"I feel certain that you are
in danger of becoming known
as tax experts, accountants,
budget jugglers and financial
planners instead of being known
by your ancient and most hon
orable title, teachers of Ameri
can youth," the governor told
the group.
He told the delegates that in
continually talking of taxation
and districting problems they
"are implying that you are ex
changing your ancient and most
honorable craft for a business
that really belongs at the local
level to the school boards and
at the state level to the Legis
lature." The governor said questions
regarding what the added money
would do for the child are going
unanswered while the educators
talk in general terms of needs.
Some 3000 educators from
throughout the state are attend
ing the state OEA convention
here which opened yesterday.
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Administration Fights
Idea That 'Modern'
GOP Means
By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) The Eisen
hower administration is trying
to stamp out the notion that
"modern Republicanism" and a
big budget are the same thing.
This reaction indicates that
the administration is being stung
by critics who view President
Eisenhower as a high spending
New Dealer because of his peace
time record budget of $71.8 bil
lion for the coming fiscal year.
At his news conference this
week, Mr. Eisenhower said his
"new Republicanism" had "noth
ing whatsoever to do with big
budgets" but rather sought the
greatest possible economy. In a
New York speech last week end,
an old conservative. Secretary
of Commerce Sinclair Weeks,
said . modern Republicanism is
just what it used to be only
dressed in up-to-date fashion.
More on this subject was heard
in a speech here Thursday by
Arthur Larson, director of the
U.S. Information Agency, who
is recognized as one of the most
articulate philosophers of the
new Republicanism.
Denounces Comparison
Larson took a dim view of the
"rather superficial inclination on
the part of some people to equate
modern Republicanism with the
1958 budget." He acknowledged
that protests against the budget
are jamming congressional mail
boxes but said there were "many
to me of Jan. 29 in which he
agreed to the assignment of tech
nicians by his own finance de
partment to study gas tax admin
istration. That study hasn't been
completed yet but the actipn is
preceding the determination of
policy based on study.
Additional Personnel Needed
Hatfield said he had no choice
but to comply with the request
but declared: "The present con
solidated staff performs both
constitutional and statutory func
tions of the secretary of state,
With the requested separation.
however, hiring of additional
personnel by both departments
will be required as a result of
unnecessary duplication and
overlapping."
Senate bill 33 relates to the
transfer from the Department
of Motor Vehicles to the secre
tary of state of the adminis
tration of ORS chapter 319,
which includes provisions relat
ing to the motor vehicle and
use fuel excise tax.
Tax Appeal Board
Under Discussion
Salem (U.R) Establishment
of a three-man board to hear tax
appeals instead of the State Tax
Commission has been discussed
before the House Taxation Com
mittee here.
Now, an aggrieved taxpayer
can take his case to the county
board of equalization, then the
State Tax Commission, and, if
he is dissatisfied with the com
mission's decision, he must go
to Circuit Court.
The board, suggested by Sen.
Ben Musa and Rep. Katherine
Musa, The Dalles Democrats,
would be an independent review
ing body whose members would
be appointed by the governor
with consent of two-thirds of the
Senate.
Sen. Musa told the committee
his idea was to create a body to
mediate between the taxpayer
and the commission and take the
judicial function away from the
commission.
"A taxpayer is now forced to
go to the same cop who arrested
him," Musa said.
Work To Continue on
Replica of Mayflower
Brixham. England (U.R)
Union leaders announced today
that work will continue on the
replica of the Mayflower even if
some 200,000 shipbuilders go on
strike Saturday as planned.
"It is a goodwill gesture to
shipyard workers in America,"
one union official said.
FREE
Spending
fallacies" in identifying the Pres
ident's budget with "modern Re
publicanism." The same tyne nf T?sniiV,i;,r,
ism, he asserted, has prevailed
for four years while government
admitted some of the current
budget's features, like federal
aid for schools, might inflate the
budget. But he noted that de
fense costs, veterans' benefits
and similar costs accounted for
most of the total.
in the face of Democrats
clamor for the administration to
tell where the budget mieht ha
cut, the administration gave Con
gress a taste Thursday of whaVio
expect. Housing Administrator
Albert M. Cole annnunrpH hi.
agency's budget request was be
ing trimmed by $200 million. Ap
parently only part of this would
have been spent in the next
fiscal year anyway. Cole said
his proposal was the first of a
series from the administration
to hold down spending.
Other Chopping Areas
Recommendations still to come
may call for putting off reclama
tion projects here, flood control
works there, and less drought
relief some place else. Congress
may or may not willingly accept
suggestions for cutbacks that can
offend local blocs of voters.
A substantial segment of the
lawmakers wants at least, first,
to take a tuck in the administra
tion's $4.4 billion foreign aid
program, which Mr. Eisenhower
has said is vital to national se
curity. Sen. John L. McClellan (D-
Ark.) came back Thursday with
his plan, passed three times by
the benate and killed three
times by the House, to improve
congressional machinery -for
handling the budget.
With 59 co-sponsors, he intro
duced a bill to set up a 14-mem-ber
House-Senate committee on
the budget. This committee
would be given a professional
staff and charged with the re
sponsibility of coUecting infor
mation for the congressional ap
propriations committees and
recommending ways to achieve
economy.
Chancellor Favors
Community College
Measure Passage
Salem (U.R) Dr. John R.
Richards, chancellor of the State
Board of Higher Education, ap
peared before the House Educa
tion committee yesterday to fa
vor passage of House biU W
which sets up a community col
lege program for Oregon.
"I believe firmly in a junior
college system which is an ex
tension of the public school sys
tem," Dr. Richards said.
The community college bill,
sponsored by Rep. Ole Grubb,
Bend Democrat, and others,
would enable school districts to
set up two-year junior colleges
with approval of the State Board
of Education.
Dr. Richards said that when
junior colleges are run by higher
education bodies, too much em
phasis is put on courses leading
to a third and fourth year of col
lege and not enough on a two-
year course 'to meet local needs.
Records Are Good
Most junior college students
do not transfer to other state
schools for more education, Dr.
Richards said But he said Cali
fornia studies showed that when
they did, their records were bet
ter than members of the junior
class of the state university.
As for financing the commun
ity college program, Dr. Rich
ards said localities must con
tribute to their schools, but that
state aid also should be substan
tial. He told the committee he
thought the most orderly way to
obtain the state money would
be out of the basic school sup
port fund which he hoped would
be increased.
The chancellor said he saw no
chance of friction between his
board and the board of educa
tion even though the Board of
Higher Education would be pass
ing on courses and instructor
qualifications. The State Board
of Education would actually ad
minister the colleges.
"We won't try to dictate
courses," Dr. Richards said, "but
we'll be tough in setting stand
ards of instruction."
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